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3-8-44 |
77.09.1832 |
WASHINGTON BUREAU
ACME NEWSPICTURES
UNITED STATES BOMBS DROPPING ON BERLIN
American calling cards on their way downward to blast Berlin in the
raid of March 6th. Liberators and Fortresses took part in
the raid. American Air Force fighters accounted for 83 German planes.
These bombs seem to be directed at railroad trackage.
Credit: U S Army Air Force photo via radiotelephoto from Acme |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1833 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
HEROINE OF THE BEACHHEAD
ITALY—Cpl. Richard Nordwall, Rockford, Ill., is admiring the Silver
Star of Lt. Elaine A. Roe, U.S. Army nurse who won the decoration on
the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead for her gallantry in action when Germans
shelled field hospital to which she was attached last month. Lt. Roe
helped carry out evacuation of 42 patients during the shelling. Lt.
Roe is from White Water, Wisc.
Credit: Acme |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1834 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
HUNTING FOOD INSTEAD OF NAZIS
ITALY—Pvt. Ralph hardman, of Connor, Ga., spots a young bull in a herd
of cattle and gets his rifle into position for the kill. He took time
off from hunting Nazis because he and his buddies bought the animal
from an Italian farmer in the Anzio-Nettuno area to provide a change
of diet and relief from the monotonous “C” rations.
Credit: Acme photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1835 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
SLAUGHTER AT THE FRONT
ITALY—Several U.S. soldiers in the Anzio-Nettuno area bought a young
bull from an Italian farmer to provide a change from “C” rations.
After killing the animal with a rifleshot, Pvt. Ralph Hardman, Connor,
Ga., helps Sgt. James Carroll, Walton, Okla., and Pvt. John Swigert,
Baltimore, Md., clean and dress the animal. Only a few miles away are
the Germans and the front lines. Killing was done to the accompaniment
of incoming and outgoing shellfire.
Credit: Acme photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.1836 |
NEW YORK BUREAU
A CHANGE FROM “C” RATIONS
ITALY—G.I.’s fighting in the Anzio-Nettuno beachhead area get a little
weary of “C” rations so a group of them purchased a young bull from an
Italian farmer to provide a change of diet. After killing and dressing
the animal, three soldiers load the welcome beef into a trailer headed
for a mess kitchen.
Credit: Acme photo by Charles Seawood, War Pool Correspondent |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.2375 |
RADIOTELEPHOTO
NEW YORK BUREAU
BERLIN ASSIGNMENT DRAWS CHEERS
A few seconds before this photo, which was flashed to the U.S. by
radio today, was made crew members of this Flying Fortress group were
told they were to bomb Berlin. Were they downhearted? Look at the
smiles on their faces, as they cheer the news!
Credit: USAAF photo via radiotelephoto from Acme |
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03-08-44 |
77.09.3222 |
Marked for Davy Jones
This remarkably clear photo taken from a bomber of the U.S. Army 5th
Air Force, and just released in the U.S., shows a Jap destroyer
burning fiercely from a direct hit abaft the stack, just before Yank
planes finished the warship off. Only a few crew members can be seen
on deck, as the bombers roared in for the attack, (two Japs are
huddled just forward, and below the bridge). The destroyer was one of
17 Nip vessels sunk. In the American air attack off Mussau island,
about 50 miles Northwest of New Ireland. (this is the original of a
radio photo serviced you previously).
Credit line (USAAF photo from ACME) |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.3873a |
Rocket Targets for Ack-Ack Training
Camp Davis, N.C.—Jet-propelled rocket targets are now being used to
train anti-aircraft artillerymen at Camp Davis, giving our gunners
practical experience at firing at “enemy planes” diving at terrific
speed, and preparing them for action against the jet-propelled planes
of tomorrow, should the enemy perfect such planes before the war is
over. Fired from specially designed carriages, the rockets have an
initial velocity of 450 miles per hour or 675 feet per second. They
are released from the range at Holly Shelter, a Camp Davis firing
point. Manning 50 caliber machine guns and 20 and 40 mm weapons, the
trainees improve their aim and accuracy as they track the fast-moving,
59-inch targets. The rocket always describes an approximate parabola
and has a maximum horizontal range of about 2200 yards. The following
photos show phases of rocket target practice by night and by day.
New York Bureau
While other members of the rocket-launching crew push the specially
designed carriage into place at Holly Shelter, another crewman carries
the heavy, triple-finned rocket on his shoulder. The rockets are
painted white, when fired at night, to increase visibility.
Credit: ACME. |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.3912 |
Chicago Bureau
Draft Office Smashed
Chicago – Six huge plate glass windows and a glass door of the office
of Selective Service Board No. 122 in Chicago were smashed by an early
morning marauder whom neighbors reported drove a plant through the
glass. Officials blamed this, the second attack, on “discontented
people who don’t want to go into service or see their friends go.”
Here, Theresa Munari, a draft board clerk, inspects the damage.
Credit: ACME |
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3-8-44 |
77.09.4203a |
NEW YORK BUREAU
BLASTING SUB PENS AT TOULON
This photo, released in Washington today, shows bombs exploding on
Nazi-held submarine pens (exact center of photo) in the harbor at
Toulon, France, was taken by Major Gordon Sarre, of New York City,
during a recent raid by heavy bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. To
the left of the exploding bombs (in photo) columns of smoke mark
burning installations. Today, it was announced that heavy U.S. bombers
had again blasted Toulon.
Credit: USAAF photo from Acme |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.249 |
New York Bureau
New "Water Buffalo" Packs a Wallop
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- In this photo, released by the Navy Department in
Washington today, the 37mm. cannon and two 50cal. machine guns of a
new LVT (A)-1 amphibious tank fire in unison to send streams of steel
out over the test firing range. Illuminating the "Water Buffalo" with
the glare. The new hard-hitting tank, similar to its predecessors
except that it has its 37mm. cannon mounted in a turret, has already
played an important role in the invasion of Jap strongholds in the
Pacific. The vehicle, through its ability to travel with ease in water
or on land, is a valuable invasion asset.
Credit: (Official U.S. Navy Photo from ACME) |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.1148 |
BURMA BATTLERS SUPPLIED BY AIR
BURMA – Marching over rough terrain to meet the Jap enemy, Lt. Gen.
Joseph Stilwell (second in line) and a party of Yanks cross a field
littered with supplies dropped by plane in the Hukawng Valley. It is
in this Northern Burma territory that “Uncle Joe” was effectively
trapped enemy forces, severing all lines of Japanese communication.
Credit: ACME |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.2222 |
New York Bureau
One Engine Still Going Strong
OCCUPIED EUROPE – A direct hit from a Nazi flak battery tore out an
entire engine (left of photo) of this Ninth Air Force Marauder just a
few seconds before the aerial photo was made from another bomber in
the formation. The crippled B-26 medium bomber is shown falling behind
in the formation. Below, another Marauder flies on, untouched by the
heavy curtain of flak.
Credit Line (Acme) |
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03-09-44 |
77.09.2789 |
New York Bureau
Mules Move Supplies in Burma
Burma – Supplying troops at the Arakan Front is the main problem of
British and Indian warriors fighting in this rugged sector of Burma.
Trucks carry the supplies over jungle paths, and native craft are used
to ferry them over rivers and jungle streams – but sure-footed mules
that move the supplies over almost-impassable tracks are invaluable to
the fighting forces. Here packs are removed from the backs of mules
so that they can be ferried across a river.
Credit Line (ACME) |
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03-09-44 |
77.09.2898 |
New York Bureau
Supplies From the Skies
Northern Burma – Flying low over a jungle river in Northern Burma, an
American Army plane drops food and supplies to waiting troops who
gather them, load them on river boats, and rush them along to American
and Chinese forces now engaged in driving the Japs from Burma. Yank
infantry units, in action for the first time on the Asiatic continent,
are fighting under Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell. Note the bags of rice
falling from the plane. These are free-dropped, without chutes.
Credit Line-WP- (ACME) |
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03-09-44 |
77.09.3276.a |
New York Bureau
Back from Eniwetok “Hell”
Washington, D.C. – Coast Guardsmen assist a battle-blackened Marine
over the side of an assault transport after two days of intensive
fighting had wiped out the Japs at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshalls.
That’s not camouflage on his face, but coral dirt which smeared his
face as he burrowed into the ground to avoid being hit by Nip snipers.
Credit (U.S. Coast Guard photo from ACME) |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.3653 |
Radiophoto
New York Bureau
Red Army Takes Spanish Prisoners
On the Leningrad Front—White-robed Red Army fighters lead three of
their newest prisoners of war back from the Soviet-Nazi fighting lines
on the Leningrad front. The prisoners are Spanierds—probably members
of Franco’s blue division which, this photo indicates, is still
fighting with the Nazis on the Russian front.
Credit: ACME radiophoto. |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.3961.a-b |
Chicago Bureau
Hoax Sends Out Lake Patrols
Waukegan, Ill.—Authorities are searching for the person calling
himself “Col. Jones of the Civil Aeronautics Patrol” whose telephone
call reporting a tanker in distress off Waukegan sent 14 Coast Guard
boats from the Lake Michigan stations into freezing weather and a
rough sea. CAP has no such person on its lists and no sinking tanker
was discovered. Crew of this ice-covered picket boat which returned to
its Waukegan base includes: Noble Baker, Birmingham, Ala.; (left) L.F.
Baker, Tekemah, Neb.; Anthony Enos, Waukegan, Ill.; and Clarence A.
Breska, Milwaukee.
Credit: ACME. |
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3-9-44 |
77.09.4530a |
New York Bureau
Mission Completed
Somewhere in France – Its wing shorn off by enemy flak, a B-26
Marauder goes down in flames after completing its bombing mission over
military targets in the Pas de Calais area of France. The Ninth Air
Force medium bomber streaked through a heavy curtain of flak to
complete its job.
Credit: ACME |
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3-10-44 |
77.09.2214 |
New York Bureau
Among Those Missing
GERMANY – A shattered Flying Fortress wears a shroud of smoke (right)
after a direct hit from flak over a Berlin suburb. Sister ships roar
on, during the daylight raid of March 6th.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces Photo via Radiotelephoto from Acme) |
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03-10-44 |
77.09.3287 |
New York Bureau
Jap Planes Blasted in Marianas
Tinian Island
Huge pillars of smoke rise from direct hits on Jap planes on Tinian
island airfield as a result of attack by TBF Avengers in the
Marianas. Our planes breeze away from their destructive work. Square
patterns in foreground are sugar cane fields adjoining the enemy
airstrip.
Credit line (ACME) |
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03-10-44 |
77.09.3289 |
New York Bureau
Lucky Indian
S/Sgt. Emory Naha, A Tewa Indian from Winslow, Ariz., grins through a
hole in his bomber and is saluted by S/Sgt. R.S. Match (left), of
Clark Mills, N.Y., and S/Sgt. Clinton Word, Jr. (right). The Indian
sergeant was stunned by a 20 mm. shell that blew out his oxygen feeder
lines, but he returned to his guns and kept popping at the enemy
fighters.
Credit (U.S. Army Air Forces photo via Radio telephoto from ACME)
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3-11-44 |
77.09.2207 |
New York Bureau
After the Raid
NETTUNO, ITALY – Two Yanks examine the still-flaming remains of Army
vehicles that were set on fire by bombs during a German air raid on
Nettuno. The raiders visit the beachhead areas so regularly that the
Allied Military Government has moved the entire civilian population of
Nettuno and neighboring Anzio to less dangerous areas.
Credit Line – WP – (Acme) |
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3-11-44 |
77.09.2208 |
New York Bureau
“Most Kissed Woman”
NETTUNO-ANZIO BEACHHEAD – Unlike other Italian towns, where beautiful
signorinas waited to greet advancing Yanks with kisses, the
Nettuno-Anzio beachhead was barren of feminine attraction, except for
81-year-old Signora Marcella Giorgi. One of the few women permitted to
remain behind (because she must care for her invalid husband) when
other civilians were evacuated from the area, she’s a one-woman
welcoming committee from Allied fighting men. She insists on kissing
every arriving soldier by way of greeting. Signora Giorgi is shown
here chatting with Pfc. George W. DeNicola.
Credit Line (Acme photo by Charles Seawood for the War Picture Pool)
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3-11-44 |
77.09.3551 |
New York Bureau
They Escaped From the Nazis
Middle East—Aided by underground units of Tito’s guerillas, a group of
25,000 Yugoslav partisan refugees escaped from islands and towns along
the Adriatic coast, slipping from under the noses of the Nazis to the
safety of an Allied desert camp in the Middle East. There they
exchanged their ragged clothing for garments distributed by the
American Red Cross and were fed and clothed by Allied Relief Agencies.
This somberly clad woman carries two tin bowls of soup for herself and
her little girl. This is an exclusive ACME photo.
Credit: ACME. |
